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Rain washes out Sunday NHRA qualifying at Indianapolis

September 1, 2012

Tony Schumacher will begin Monday eliminations from the No. 2 spot in Top Fuel at Indianapolis. Photo by NHRA/National Dragster

Persistent rains have forced NHRA officials to cancel the final two qualifying sessions for the Mac Tools U. S. Nationals presented by Auto-Plus at Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis on Sunday. The fields for all the Full Throttle Drag Racing Series categories, including Top Fuel, Funny Car and Pro Stock--have been set by the qualifying sessions that took place on Friday and Saturday.

Courtney Force in Funny Car, Spencer Massey in Top Fuel and Erica Enders in Pro Stock, and Andrew Hines will begin eliminations Monday in the No. 1 position.

In addition, the NHRA Traxxas Funny Car Showdown scheduled to run on Sunday has been postponed to a later date.

“We believe that with the forecast for the remainder of the day that it would be extremely difficult to get the track into racing condition,” said Graham Light, NHRA senior vice president racing operations. “We are planning to run a full day tomorrow.”